[Remote] Network Engineer (Trading Infrastructure)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Eqvilent is seeking a Network Engineer to join their Trading Infrastructure team. The role involves managing end-to-end network tasks in low-latency environments, focusing on connectivity, troubleshooting, and collaboration across various teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate network connectivity for trading infrastructure across colocation sites and regions
- Deliver end-to-end network setups: cross-connects, routing, validation testing, and go-live readiness
- Investigate and resolve complex network issues affecting latency, jitter, packet loss, or reliability
- Identify and address bottlenecks across the stack together with systems and hardware engineers
- Support timing-sensitive networking (PTP/NTP): bring-up, validation, monitoring, and troubleshooting
- Work on connectivity to cloud providers
- Improve repeatability through automation, templates, and tooling
- Contribute to operational readiness: runbooks, checklists, incident reviews (RCA), inventory and documentation
- Participate in scheduled on-call rotations to support network operations and incident response
Skills
- Hands-on experience operating and troubleshooting production networks, Linux and NGFW
- Solid understanding of routing and switching fundamentals (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, L2/L3 design)
- Good understanding of how networks impact system and application performance
- Ability to work end-to-end and collaborate across domains (systems, hardware, vendors)
- Automation mindset; scripting experience (Python/Bash) is a plus
- Passion for technology and continuous learning
- Experience in low-latency or performance-sensitive environments (trading, exchanges, market data)
- Colocation and provider connectivity experience (cross-connects, optics, acceptance testing)
- Experience with cloud connectivity (Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, Cloud Interconnect, etc.)
- PTP/NTP experience and understanding of timing-related failure modes
- CCNP-level (CCNP SP / CCNP DC / CCNP Ent knowledge or equivalent hands-on experience)
Benefits
- Work remotely from anywhere in the world
- Access any of our global offices anytime
- Flexible schedule
- 40 paid days off
- Competitive salary
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